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1. Hegseth testified in Congress that the cost of first 60 days of the Iran War cost $25 billion. Internally, the Pentagon says its $50 billion. Popular Information crunched the numbers, and the real cost is much higher: At least $72 BILLION.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week. And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY. You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.

"There’s a difference between protecting elections and putting up barriers. One builds confidence. The other builds frustration." #SouthCarolina didn't ratify women's right to vote until 1969! 49 years after it became law‼️ This is worth a read #scpol

True. But, I doubt enough people realize this or will remember by the time the midterms come around. And, that's exactly what the GOP is banking on.

When Republican Rep. Mary Miller started a sentence in 2021 with “Hitler was right …” it was a sign that racism was a key characteristic of Republicans in Congress. My free Stop the Presses newsletter cites more than a dozen examples of bigotry by GOP lawmakers. Major media need to highlight this.

The more things change, the more they stay the same or get worse. Eight years ago, almost all of what I said "must" happen never happened. There are cautionary tales for '28 Democrats in this 2020 column about the fury and impatience of boring center-lefties like me. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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When Trump blows off a reporter's question and asks rudely "who are you with" , they should all reply: 1st. I am with the American people and their right to know the truth and the facts. 2nd. I'm with the 1st Amendment and the free press. 3rd. Who I work with shouldn't matter.

For profit detention is twisted. No one should profit off of the misery & abduction of people! They get paid to care for people–children even–but the only thing they really care about is their bottom line. They deprive/torture those in their care because it's profitable to do so. #ICELawlessness

As I was saying, par for the course.

No more excuses for funding social programs.

Joe Kent's resignation letter is an antisemitic tract — the ur-text of a "stabbed in the back" myth that could do enormous damage to American Jews www.vox.com/politics/482...

"In our analysis of a long term data set of Virginia (USA) we found that it took $33 million of investment into data centres to create one job, around 400 times the cost of a job from IT investment that did not go into data centres" aprs.scot/resources/em...

JFC! The right already stripped abortion rights from millions of women. Contraception is next. Project 2025 made the agenda clear. This was never about saving babies. It’s about control, pushing women back into submission and forcing more births. 1/2

Let that sink in. Tell Congress to stop this voter suppression bill here: https://bit.ly/3XoEskc #ResistTrump

Dark money groups are paying influencers to spread attacks about our campaign. Voters deserve to know who is trying to manipulate our election.

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

The fact that the U.S. has been so successfully brainwashed into thinking that sunburned white guys Define the Working Class when the actual working class is non-white women (many of them immigrants) is one of the great madness runes of our time.

This is insane. Insiders profiting off of knowledge about the military is not just insider trading, it's also a threat to national security because our adversaries can certainly monitor these markets!

Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran. Unreal.

It’s so easy to go from the No War president to the regime-change war president. Especially if you’re the Board of Peace chair.

If Russia and China conspired to destroy the U.S. military with a Manchurian candidate I don't think they could have picked a better choice than Hegseth. The damage he's doing will take decades to fix.

I think people should know that the person who took the position below is a member of the Texas bar and that her name is Mary Larakers.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02... Hegseth has threatened to terminate Anthropic’s contract with the Pentagon by Friday unless the AI startup agrees to the Trump administration’s terms of use, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

1. On January 23, Crypto.com donated $5 million to MAGA Inc, Trump's primary Super PAC. (The donation was first disclosed in a FEC filing Friday night.) Less than 1 month later, on February 17, the Trump administration intervened on Crypto.com's behalf in a high-stakes federal lawsuit.

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

This is flying under the radar: Donald Trump FIRED the DOJ official in charge of suing Live Nation-Ticketmaster for monopolizing ticketing and hiking prices. Then, their stock jumped. If Trump's DOJ takes it easy on Ticketmaster, it'll be a slap in the face to every American.

Nothing to see here…just more criminals buying their way out prison.

NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

#YesWeCan, America, #YesWeCan. We just have to want it badly enough...

The geniuses over at the Washington Post just fired 300 journalists because they alienated their audience in 2024 and 2025. Yet, they are still at it! Support independent, pro-democracy media by signing up for Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

So you won the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. You stacked the courts, the DOJ, HHS, the FBI, and everything else with loyalists. But you think you should be allowed total control of elections to make sure it's not "rigged". "Make America Stupid Again" because smart people dont like you. 🙄

ICE watch has been life-changing: “I feel like our whole lives as Minnesotans...it’s always kind of like, ‘Don’t even start that kind of thing because you have to live around these people. I feel that’s gone in me personally — I don’t even care if I ruffle feathers.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...